Tokihime: The Temporal Maiden - Tokihime: The Temporal Maiden
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did not expect the happy ending, but this is also good
Not bad, it’s definitely interesting to see the time reversal power in an earlier time period, but this moral is almost overdone in Japanese media at this point, and the execution was a bit fast, but I’ll ignore that since it was a one shot.
It would’ve been nice if there was something between having a murderer killed for committing murder and him rounding up future criminals and executing them before they were even guilt of anything, because the juxtaposition of a relatively reasonable reaction to someone who caused mass death and injury and having innocent people executed for future crimes is quite the leap, and putting them next to each other with no substantial in-between feels like the author is treating them as equal levels of tyranny, as if the arsonist shouldn’t have been executed regardless of the fact that he most certainly would have been anyway. And in a way, Tokihime came off as more self-righteous and self-centered despite her being the “moral” one of the two, because she let him repeat the day ten times before finally having a complaint on the final one and then trapping him in an infinite loop to prevent him from doing the things she allowed to happen. She waited until he was at the end of his rope to drop him on his traumatized ass, and then there’s a forced happy ending with them being like “oh well, guess after countless times changing history to prevent death, people under my watch are gonna die again. I won so it’s not my problem anymore.”
It would’ve been nice if there was something between having a murderer killed for committing murder and him rounding up future criminals and executing them before they were even guilt of anything, because the juxtaposition of a relatively reasonable reaction to someone who caused mass death and injury and having innocent people executed for future crimes is quite the leap, and putting them next to each other with no substantial in-between feels like the author is treating them as equal levels of tyranny, as if the arsonist shouldn’t have been executed regardless of the fact that he most certainly would have been anyway. And in a way, Tokihime came off as more self-righteous and self-centered despite her being the “moral” one of the two, because she let him repeat the day ten times before finally having a complaint on the final one and then trapping him in an infinite loop to prevent him from doing the things she allowed to happen. She waited until he was at the end of his rope to drop him on his traumatized ass, and then there’s a forced happy ending with them being like “oh well, guess after countless times changing history to prevent death, people under my watch are gonna die again. I won so it’s not my problem anymore.”
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